Airship.



W. V. KAMP.

AIRSHIP.

APPLICATION FILED APR?, 1914,

1,108,113, Patented Aug.18,1914

2 SHEETS-SHEET l.

W. V. KAMP.

AIBSHIP.

Ar'mowmn NLED APRA, 1914.

1, 1 O8, 1 1 8. Patent-,ed Aug. 18, 1914 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

WALTER V. KAMP, 0F NEW YRK. N. Y.

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Specication of Let-ters eteni.

Application led Apri! 7, 2314. Seria Bie. 'ilfl.

To all zzrlzomv t may foncer?! Be it; known that I, W ALTER V. KAMP, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have yinvented new and useful Improvements in Airships, of which the following is a speeication.

This invention relates to air ships and it consists in the novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

An object of the` invention is to provide inan air ship a main body of special strueture having Within the Same a series of comq part-ments or gas bags each said bag being provided with a valved nipple. Passageh ways are provided between the side walls oi' the gas bags and the side wall of the bodyand means is provided for forcing or circo lating air through the said passageways whereby the surfaces of the gas bags may lie maintained at adesired temperature.

Another object of the invention is to pio vide in combination with a. body as above indicated a boat, Shaped car suspended from the body and in which is located suitable engines or motors. A propeller is located at the forward rnd of the body and is adapted to be operated by. one of the engines or mr tors for forcingr the air hack hrongh the passageways in the said body.

Another object of the invention is to pio vide in combination with a body and car as above indicated laterally disposed planes' having propellers jonrnaled at. the reni.' pou tions thereof, Unc of the engines rarried hy the car is adapted to operaie the last mentioned propellers.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide in combination with the body as above indicated means for receiving wireless 'velen lgraph messages.

ln the accompanying drawings-lignre l is a. side elevation of the air ship. Fig. 2 is a front. elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the forward portion of the body oi the air `sfhip with parts in section and parts broken away. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional View of the hodyoi' the ainship. Fig. 5 is a detailed sectional View of a por tion of thev hody. Fig. is a perspeetive view ol' one oi' the `las bags used in the body.

The. air ship includes a hody l which is of the usual oigan or elliptical external configuration. The body l is provided at. ita roar ond with a suitable rudder and at its forward rnd with a propeller 3 which is iines in l 4 i of the drawings A, boatfshaped ear is Suspended from the body i and may if desired he provided with wheels f and a siandard Engines and 9 indicated by douted lines in i Fig. i are mounted in ihe hoatfshaped car 5 and a chain i@ operativeiy connects the Shaft. of the engine. 8 with he shaft. 4 of the propeller Laterally disposed lanes li are mounted at the opposie sides o the forward portion of the iiofiy i and propellers 12 are journaled for roation at the rear ,portions of the said pianos il and at points between the ends ehereof. Chains i3 operatively conneci; the shet oit' the engine Si wiih the shafts of the propeliers lf2. A wireless teiegraph reifeirer le mounted upon the ton of the body i. l'

(hie bags or rereptacies i5 are located in the intermediate portion the body i, and ihc Said haga are preferably ryiindrieai in shape a. indicated in oi the drawing. Each laag provided with vaived nipple i6 whirh passes through the aide oi' ille hodyi heel shown in Fig. 'i of the drawing.

'The hags i5 are surrounded hy spirali? wound s'rins i7 and the Said strips are rel-Litively thin-lr. Other strips 18 vare also spi rally wound around the iras haga 15 and are arranged one'npon anoiher as liest indr rated in Fig. 5. The strips 18 cross the srips li'. that. is to say the said strips i8 are spiraiiy wound ahon the haga l5 in the opposite direrion from that in which the strips i7 are wound. The .st-rips i8 in ar proximateiy pz'sraiiel lines are spaced freinV each other and ihe strips l? are .epaced from each other thereby providing passageways between the body 'l and the snrfac vof the gas bags l5. The body l is provided at its forward end with an opening lf) which is centrally positioi'ied wii. relation to the propelier 3 and which is spaced from the Shaft i which carries the .said propeller 3.

mounted upon a shaft; fi indicated oy dotted Fi 7 b From the-faber@ desacriition taken in con-L junction with the awwinipanying drawing;r it wili he seen that when it is deaired to {ierniii. the gas to eseape'roin any one of the gras hars l5 he 'nipple l5 may1 he manipulated to permit sach apenient of ifhcn it is desired in "rrulaie air about the peripheries of ihe purpose of maintaining theoags at. a desired tcingferatnre the propole 3 is: rotated hv the. engine S and conaeqnenry a hiaat of air oreed inA av rearward direction through the opening 19 at the forward end ofthe body lY and this sir passes rearwardly through theA pnssngewuys between the .strips ,17 und` 18 and consequently 'the gas bags and their eon-I mits may .be muintained'ta temperature substantially the samev as that oftheexterv nal atmosphere. 'By such an arrangement, thev ressure of the gas confinedwithin they gas lngs is maintainedapproximately at 'n' uniform degree withl relation to the pressure' of the externalntmosphere.v

Having described the invention' whatis A claimed is l. In Aen air ship a body gas bags located in the body, strips wound-.around the gas bugs and spared from eachother and specing the bugs from the body und inea-ns for forcing air lthrough the space between-the ges bags .find the body. v-

In zinnir'ship u bo'dy, gas-bags located therein, strips spirnlly ,wound about the gas bags and spur-,ing the bags 'from the bodynnd means for forcing air through the space between the gas bags and the body. v

3. In an air ship a body, gas bu'gs'locuted in the body, strips spirully wound about the gus bugs in onedirection, other stripsspirally wound vabout the ges b a s in the opposite direction the strips of t e two sets. ofstrips being spaoe'd from each 'other and the l said strips spacing the gas bugs from the vpeller where y the said propeller ma force .air through the said opening and t rou h the spaceA between the as bags and the bo y.

g 5'. lIn unfair ship-a ody, gas bagslocated in the body, strips Aspil-ally wound about the gas bags in one direct-ion, lstrips spirally wound zlibout'the gzsbgs in :1n-*opposite directionthe mem by' 'passageways' areI provided 'between the 'gus bags and the body,y seidl body having at its forward end an'opening, a propeller jourrsA of the two sets of l, strips'belng spueed-'froln each other wherenaled forrotation in advance of said openy ing, means for rotating the propeller whereby the sadvprop'eller forces air bark through vthe saidopening and through the spaces between the `gus bags and the .bodyand through the .spaces betweenthe `seid strips. A Inv testimonywhereof I aflix my signature lin' presence oftwo witnesses.

Y f f WALTER V. KAMP. .Vtitnessesz JOHN A. DONEGUE, AM. E. LAUGHLIN. 

